Chris Newell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 13:35 25/01/2007, you wrote: >>> Hi Chris, that's an interesting application idea but I think the idea >>> behind a microformat is to describe content in the HTML document in a >>> standardized format (based on common usage elsewhere such as vCard) >>> rather than store it externally (for use by the browser to populate a >>> form). > >> I don't think this is the point, Chris wanted to focus on. >> If there would be a standarized format how to describe form elements >> it would help developers of extentions, plugins and useragents to >> automatically prefill it. (Instead of just guessing if its possibly a >> login-field). > > Right - so as well as being able to use microformats to signal "this > block of HTML is an hCard" it might be possible to signal "this HTML > form will accept an hCard". > > I hate to think how many times I've had to enter my details into > various ecommerce sites!
Partly this is an id thing. openid (http://openid.net) hope to sort some of these problems out. -- Nic Ferrier http://www.tapsellferrier.co.uk for all your tapsell ferrier needs _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
